Anthropic Valued at $61.5 Billion With $3.5 Billion in New Funding

<p class&equals;"Body&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;t7kGM paragraph-m post-text">Anthropic has raised &dollar;3&period;5 billion at a &dollar;61&period;5 billion post-money valuation&period; The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners&comma; with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners&comma; Cisco Investments&comma; D1 Capital Partners&comma; Fidelity Management &amp&semi; Research Company&comma; General Catalyst&comma; Jane Street&comma; Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures&comma; among other new and existing investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"Body&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;t7kGM paragraph-m post-text">With this investment&comma; Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems&comma; expand its compute capacity&comma; deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment&comma; and accelerate its international expansion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"Body&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;t7kGM paragraph-m post-text">The announcement follows the launch of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;news&sol;claude-3-7-sonnet">Claude 3&period;7 Sonnet<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;news&sol;claude-3-7-sonnet">Claude Code<&sol;a>&comma; building on Anthropic&&num;8217&semi;s continued product and commercial momentum&period; Claude 3&period;7 Sonnet has set a new high-water mark in coding abilities—an area where Anthropic plans to make further progress in the coming months&period; With this foundation&comma; Anthropic is focused on developing AI systems that can serve as true collaborators&comma; working alongside teams to tackle complex projects&comma; synthesize information across fields&comma; and help organizations achieve outsized impact&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"Body&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;t7kGM paragraph-m post-text">Businesses across industries—from fast-growing startups like Cursor and Codeium to global corporations like Zoom&comma; Snowflake and Pfizer—are turning to Claude to transform their operations&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;customers&sol;replit">Replit<&sol;a> integrated Claude into &&num;8220&semi;Agent&&num;8221&semi; to turn natural language into code&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;inc&period;com&sol;ben-sherry&sol;after-partnering-with-anthropic-replit-has-grown-revenue-by-10x&sol;91147509">driving 10X revenue growth<&sol;a>&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;customers&sol;thomson-reuters">Thomson Reuters<&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi; tax platform CoCounsel uses Claude to assist tax professionals&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theinformation&period;com&sol;articles&sol;ozempic-maker-says-ai-is-finally-reliable-enough-to-produce-sensitive-documents&quest;rc&equals;77swo1">Novo Nordisk <&sol;a>has used Claude to reduce clinical study report writing from 12 weeks to 10 minutes&semi; and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;news&sol;claude-and-alexa-plus">Claude now helps to power Alexa&plus;<&sol;a>&comma; bringing advanced AI capabilities to millions of households and Prime members&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;